This measure would memorialize Congress and the President of the United States to act to vindicate the sailors unjustly blamed for, and the sailors convicted of mutiny following, the Port Chicago disaster, and to rectify any mistreatment by the military of those sailors, as specified.
This measure would declare April 26 through April 30, 2010, as West Nile Virus and Mosquito and Vector Control Awareness Week.
This measure would proclaim May 2010 as Buy California Small Business First Month to raise awareness that when California consumers, businesses, colleges, universities, and governmental agencies choose to first support California small businesses when making purchasing decisions, a wave of positive economic impacts occurs within the state and local economies.
This measure would proclaim May 2 through May 8, 2010, as Cinco de Mayo Week, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, requires a pharmaceutical manufacturer that sells or distributes medication that is self-injected at home through the use of hypodermic needles and other similar devices to submit a plan to the department that describes how the manufacturer supports the safe collection and proper disposal of the waste devices. This bill would create the California Product Stewardship Act and would require the department, by January 1, 2012, in consultation with specified state agencies, to submit a report to the Legislature recommending that one or more consumer products be included as a covered product for purposes of the act. The bill would require a producer of a covered product, one year after the effective date of a statute designating a product as a covered product, or the product stewardship organization created by one or more producers of that covered product to act as an agent on their behalf, to submit a product stewardship plan to the department, which would be required to include specified elements, including performance goals, a collection rate, and product goals. The department would be required to review and either deem the product stewardship plan submitted to the department as complete or incomplete, within 45 days after receiving the plan. The bill would prohibit the producer of a covered product from selling a covered product 6 months after the plan is deemed complete unless the producer or product stewardship organization of the covered product has submitted a plan to the department that is deemed complete by the department. The bill would require the department, 6 months after a plan is deemed complete, and on January 1 and July 1 annually thereafter, to post on its Internet Web site the covered products that are not in compliance and the bill would require a wholesaler or retailer that distributes or sells covered products to monitor the department's Internet Web site to determine if a covered product is in compliance. The act would require a producer of a covered product to collect the covered product pursuant to the product stewardship plan and to meet the performance goals included in the product stewardship plan. The bill would provide that a product stewardship program is in compliance with the act only if it achieves the collection rate specified in the product stewardship plan. Each producer or product stewardship organization implementing a product stewardship plan would be required to prepare and submit to the department an annual report describing the activities carried out pursuant to the product stewardship plan. A producer or product stewardship organization submitting a product stewardship plan would be required to pay the department an annual fee that would be set by the department. The bill would provide for the imposition of administrative civil penalties upon a producer who does not comply with the act's requirements. The bill would create in the existing Integrated Waste Management Fund the Product Stewardship Account and would require that the administrative fees be deposited into that account and that the penalties be deposited into the Product Stewardship Penalty Subaccount that the bill would create in that account. The bill would authorize the fees and penalties to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to cover the board's program implementation costs and as incentives to enhance recyclability and redesign efforts and to reduce environmental and safety impacts of covered products.
This measure would request the Congress to develop a comprehensive federal regulatory framework for marine aquaculture that undergoes complete environmental review and is at least as protective as that codified in California's Sustainable Oceans Act to address environmental and economic concerns.
This measure would designate Friday, May 7, 2010, as California Peace Officers' Memorial Day and would urge all Californians to use that day to honor California peace officers.
This bill would recognize the month of June as Portuguese Heritage Month.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 53 in Lake County as the Lake County Veterans Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would declare May 2010 to be American Stroke Month in California and would urge all Californians to familiarize themselves with the risk factors, and to recognize the warning signs and symptoms associated with stroke, to help reduce the devastating effects of stroke on the population.
